VOL. LX NO. 18,910 Kntrx! t Portland Oreon Postoffire as SconfJ-CUw Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS NEW TARIFF BILL $1,094,205 IS ADDED' ! i y IS FIRST YOUTH, 14, RESCUES WOMAN SEARS CROSS L BIG BANK OF NATIONS CHIEFS TO ROAD WORK FUND GASOLI.VE AXD DISTILLATE SALES LARGE IX OREGOX. TWO FROM DROWNING INTO HER OWN CHEST IS PROPOSED IN BILL BUREAU Ml COOL APPRASA TOLD TO PRUNE GIRLS, ' IXCOXSCIOUS, . PCLLED FROM RIVE - : v ARE ATOXEMEXT FOR IX FIDELITY PLAX TO PUSH TRADE AX D STA BILIZE CREDIT IS AFOOT. DEMANDED BY HUSBAND. APPEARS NHDUSE WORLD FAIR NEEQ W BIG FIGHT Cobb Reviews Heavies $700,000,000 Expected ' to Be Raised. 'free list articles taxed Measure Increases Revenues From Many Sources. LUMBER LEVY ATTACKED Receipts From Taxes In May Nearly Treble Figures for Same Month in Previous Year. SALEM, Or.. June 29. (Special.) Approximately $1,094,203.25 has been received by the state from taxes , levied on gasoline and distillate sales in Oregon during the period February 1. 1919, to May 31. 1921. according to a report prepared here today by Sam A. Kozer. secretary of state. There was sold by oil distributors in Oregon dur ing that period 4.558.338 gallons of gasoline and ', 116,260.75 gallons of distillate. The following summary shows the various months, and the amount of taxes received by the state, as tabu lated by the state department: Financing of Exposition Discussed by Citizens. rayne-Aldrlch Rales Are Much Higher Than New Schedule in Some Instances. WASHINGTON. D. C. June 29. (By the Associated Press.) The adminis- tration"s permanent tariff bill was Introduced toaay in the house of rep resentatives and for the first timt was made public No explanatory statements accom panied the introduction of the meas ure, as has been customary, and no fficial estimate was made of the revenue it is expected to return. Unofficial estimates bv members of the ways and means committee, how ever, placed the expected return as high as J700.000.000 a year. The Payne-Aldrich law in the normal pre war years produced a little more than J300.000.000 a vear. Examination of the bill shows that In some cases the rates proposer! are higher than corresponding rates of the Payne-Aldrich law, while others are lower. Many Free Article Taxed, An estimate of how the whole bill eompar-g with the Payne-Aldrich law will be possible only through a de tailed study by tariff experts, be cause the schedules of the new bill are in many cases not framed in par allel with the schedules of the Payne law. In comparison with the Underwood tariff law of the Wilson administra tion, the new bill removes many ar ticles from the free list, although it leaves a large list free of duty, in cluding print paper, wood pulp, leather and harness and agricultural Implements. It raises the duties on the great bulk of Imports already be ing taxed. It has made no notable additions to the free list. Comparison of the wool schedule with schedule K of the Payne Aldrich bill, over which a bitter fight was waged in congress, showed ma terial reductions i a number of in stances. In the items of hose and gloves the duty fixed by the commit tee was 30 cents a pound and 23 per cent ad valorem duty in addition.' wnne in me Payne bill the rate was 44 cents a pound and 60 per cent ad taiorem. Clothing, as fixed oui, carries 20 cents February. 1910 March April May June July August September . . . October November .... Derember January. 19-0 February March April May June July August September ... October November . . . liecember January, 1921 , February March April May Total $1,004,203.29 MILLIONS TO BE REQUIRED Prominent Men of Portland Urge Raising of Fund. TAXATION ONE SOLUTION Conference Develops Enthusiasm for Gigantic Enterprise and Plans Will Be Formulated. 32,."iS.8.'i 24.34d.10 2(1.702. 43 64.377 4 32.(l:i.H0 HOSPITAL WILL EXPAND Will Second Wing of Hahnemann Be Constructed at Once. The Hahnemann Hospital associa tion plans to begin Immediately the construction of the second wing of the Hahnemann hospital, to cost In the neighborhood of $100,000, according to announcement made yesterday by Amedee Smith, executive secretary of the association. Mr. Smith said that it was expected to have the wing com pleted in six months. The children's ward, for the financ ing of which $25,000 was raised by the Portland Rotary club, is to be established In the wing to be erected The first wing of the hospital has been completed by the government at an expenditure of about $140,000 and is to be used for a period of five years for disabled soldiers of the re cent war. Equipment Is now being installed. BOY SEIZED BY OCTOPUS in the pound and 23 per cent, as against 44 cents a pound and 60 per cent in the Payne measure. The same degree of shading was made by the committee in knit fab rics, at 25 cents a pound and 20 per cent ad valorem against the former republican rate of 33 to 41 . pound and 50 to 55 per cent ad va lorem. Republican members of the com mittee declared today that the rates on wool were much below the Payne Aldrich schedule. Democratic mem bers of the committee did not have access to the bill until late today and tonight they were attempting to find out just how it compared. In the rush to get the bill to the house, the committee had no submit a report, but it is subject to change, it was said, by a republican caucus. " The lumber schedule, as originally drawn, was cut by . the committee, whihe finally heeded the appeal of republicans to have finished lumber kept on the free list. Shingles, how ever, were taxed in the lumber sched ule, but many other Items were not. The committee provided that if any country imposed a duty on any of the free list lumber exported from the United States, the president might enter into negotiations with it to ob tain removal of the tax and, failing, would be empowered to declare equal rates on the product imported from such country. Shingles Tax Opposed. The leaders in the fight to have lumber remain on the free list in dicated that such other differences as might exist on the subject would be adjusted. The tax of 50 cents a thousand on shingles caused some complaints from members who had been urging that no duty be imposed on any products needed at this time in relieving the housing shortage. The oil tax was unexpected. . The duty was not as high, it was said, as that proposed and rejected the other day by a vote of 9 to 8, but American oil producers kept up the fight and the rate was the last important ac tion of the committee before Chair man Fordn'ey took the bill to the house and formally introduced it. Along with oil the first part caucus Is expected to deal with the chemical schedule and some others. All manufactures not specially provided, 15 per cent. Underwood 40 cents. Agricultural Products. Cattle less than two years old. I cent a pound; two years and over. 11 cenu a pound; L'nderwood free. Freh beef and veal. 2 cents; sheep and iCvmludtd ou Page 2, tulumji l.j i Sisters Attack Monster With Oars and Save Child's Life. EUREKA, Cal.. June 29. A lS-foot octupus was killed at Samoa, Hum boldt county, late yesterday, after it had seized in its tentacles George, S-year-old son of Captain C. M. Tcter son, of the tug Ranger. The boy was wading in the shallow water while two older sisters were paddling about in a boat. The boy's screams alarmed the sisters and they attacked the sea monster with their oars. The octupus lashed out with other tentacles and wrenched an oar from the hands of the younger sister. The other girl, using her oar, bayonet fashion, cartly stunned the animal, which loosened its hold on the boy and crawled to nearby rocks, where it was beaten to death. 1.073.92 20.0S4 33 3ll.lsU.S3 32,87 4.34 3U.03H.72 41.822.39 47,477.73 SS.ltil.84 .-,!l.:i2.17 9.40..;7 21.717.72 m.774.n 27.13.t 32.299.63 34.41H l3 ) 4 il'Jsss I Finances before fairs; expenditures 4.".o;;.t4 precede expositions. 4ti'79 73 Tnis sle7an. in effect, was coined 4i'!3lT!4T ' yesterday afternoon, at a meeting of 'i:!'il-""s3 ' 60 eadinS Tortland citizens to discuss major plans for the 1925 exposition. They decided it was all right for them to meet and discuss the projected en terprise in general terms, but the need of the hour was a financial corner stone upon which to lay the founda tion of the undertaking. The un doubted sentiment of the assembly, however, was for the exposition, pro vided a workable plan of finance could be devised. It was the consensus of opinion that the finance committee be Instructed to prepare a plan for getting necessary funds and lay it before a later meet ing to be called by President Julius Meier. This policy was framed in a motion and prevailed by unanimous vote. Exposition Ronaea Enthualnxm. Considerable enthusiasm for the proposed exposition developed at the meeting held at the Multnomah hotel. Present were the bulwarks of the community, in a business and finan cial, as well as, to an extent, profes sional way. It seemed everybody In attendance favored the project, provided the necessary financial support could be obtained. - Thia was held by some speakers to be problematical, al though the majority expressed confi dence that it would be forthcoming. Lack of a definite financial pro gramme was deplored, speakers dis cussing the problem being somewhat at a disadvantage because no settled policy of getting the money by taxa tion, subscription, or both, had been outlined. At the forthcoming meet ing, to be held as soon as may be. these are expected to be available. Preliminary Work Progresses. President Meier, on calling the meeting to order, introduced J. E. Gratke, who has been in charge of preliminary promotion work, and he told what has been accomplished along that line to date. Seven states, one a far eastern commonwealth, Dela ware, have indorsed the exposition, he said, in unqualified fashion. More than 100 resolutions had been passed Astoria Lad Sees Aunt Fa 0 tempt to Save 5-Vcar-C " At. nd Plunges to Rescue ' ASTORIA. Or., June o .Special.) Chester Moats, aged J- ears, res cued two persons' tro'b Wning last night. Plunging into upper Youngs river he dragged the unconscious bodies of Miss Ina Capps, aged 22, and Gerald Stroh, aged 5, to the bank where they were revived. Mies Capps, Gerald, Gertrude and Gladys Stroh were boat riding; nn the stream near Youngs river meadows when little Gerald fell overboard. His aunt. Miss Capps, plunged to the rescue. The strug gling child clasped her about the neck desperately. Impeded by the clutch of the boy and her own cloth ing, she was unable to swim and both sank. Young Moats, standing on the bank, saw the danger and swam hurriedly to the rescue. Aided by Gertrude Stroh he brought the pair to the shore, where first aid resuscitated them. WAR OFFENDER PARDONED Ex-Chaplain of Army on Parole Gets Presidential Clemency. WASHINGTON, D. C, June 29. Franz J. Fefnler, an ex-regular army chaplain, sentenced to 15 years in the federal penitentiary in 1918, on charges of uttering treasonable Ian guage, has been pardoned by Presl dent Harding on recommendation of Secretary Weeks. He had been at liberty on parole for nearly a year t-t that. time. Feinler, a. native of Germany, en tered the army as chaplain from South Dakota in 1909. He was sent overseas early In the war but was returned because of alleged state ments showing German sympathy and assigned to Honolulu. It was charged that he carried on there propaganda favorable to the enemy and his trial by, courtmartial followed. Secretary Weeks recommended a pardon on the ground, it was said, that Feinler already had been pun ished sufficiently. HAYWOOD HEARD FROM WILSON GOTHAM LAWYER Ex-President Admitted to Practice in Xew York Courts. NEW YORK, June 29. Ex-Presl-dent Wilson today was admitted as a practicing attorney and counsellor at law in the courts of the state of New York. Mr. Wilson was not present in per son, but was admitted on motion of James A. O'Gorman, ex-United States senator. All the justices of the court were present out of respect to Mr. Wilson, although ordinarily only five members sit at a time. Mr. Wilson was admitted in the District of Columbia courts last Sat urday. He will enter a partnership with Bainbridge Colby, ex-secretary of state. VOLCANO STRIKES TERROR -- Wild Activity of SIroniboli Fills Sicilians With Horror. MESSINA. Italy. June 28. (By the Associated Press.) The volcano Stromboli, on Stromboli island, off the north coast of Sicily, burst into wild activity last night and terror fills the island. The molten rocks and sulphurous gases pouring from the crater, it vl-as feared, might spell impending doom to the panic-striken inhabitants. The Islanders, terrorized by the un canny behavior of the volcano during the last three days, were congregat ing on the shores preparing for an attempt at flight but waiting in the hope that the volcano would subside. WAY IS OPEN FOR TURKS Greeks Evacuate Town That Blocks Nationalists' Route. CONSTANTINOPLE. June 29. (By the Associated Press.) The Greeks have evacuated Ismid in Asia-Minor, and the Turkish nationalists under Mustapha Kemal Pasha now have a clear road to Constantinople. The nationalists are not expected to respect the neutral gone prescribed by the allied commission. I (Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.) Fugitive Sends Radio From Russia That He Will Surrender. CHICAGO, June 29 United States District Attorney Clyne today an nounced that he had received a radio message from William (Big Bill) Haywood which stated that he was leaving Moscow July 12 and would' surrender to the federal authorities as soon as he landed in this country. Haywood was convicted of sedition and pending the appeal was released on a $30,000 bond. When he did not appear for sentence the bond was forfeited. Mr. Clyne made public the cable gram, which was as follows: "My Dear Friend Clyne: Will leave here July 12 and will arrive in New York July 26." ' Mr. Clyne, in commenting upon the cablegram, said: "Haywood has an awful lot of nerve calling me 'Friend Clyne."" Misbehavior Admitted by Wife, but Court Blames Spouse and Couple Is Reconciled. NEW YORK. June 29. (Special.) Mrs. Benjamin Hoynoski of 534 West Fiftieth street, seared an imperfect sign of the cross Into the flesh of her breast Sunday morning to atone for her infidelity. In the presence of her two babies she heated an iron red hot in the flame of the gas range in her home and branded herself until she could bear the pain no longer. She said in west side court today that her husband, having learned of her fondness for another man, ordered her to do such penance. Her husband said she did it on her own initiative, but with his knowledge. They have been married three years and were childhood sweethearts in Poland. They had lived together in harmony until this episode. Before Magistrate Mancuso she admitted misbehavior with another man. But she contended her husband's harsh ness had driven her to it. The mag istrate found both were to blame the husband perhaps more than the wife. 'Do you love your husband?" Mag istrate Mancuso asked her. "Yes," she replied. Then he asked the man if he loved his wife, and he replied that he did. Hoynoski, the defendant, was placed under suspended sentence. In the courtroom he kissed his wife, and they parted at the outer door, she to go to her children, one 3 years and the other 8 months old, and he to his work. He has forgiven her. She has for given him. Free Like Indian Maid. NO CHEERS GIVEN BALLYHOO Dempsey Found Old Glory's Best Friend in Peace Time. FROG'S DEFEAT EXPECTED PRICE 0FPEARS FIXED Schedule of California Growers 4 0 Per Cent Off 1920. SAN FRANCISCO, June 29. The California Pear Growers' association announced today opening prices on the 1921 crop of Bartlett pears, near ly 40 per cent lower than last sea son. The new price is $61. i5 a ton. net to growers, for. No. 1 Bartletts, and $33.25 a ton for No. 2 Bartletts Last year the price to the canners was $100 a ton. The tonnage offered to canners this year will be limited and prob ably will not be more than 60 per cent, President Frank T. Swett an nounced, as a result of the eastern demand for fresh pears due to the frost damage there to apples, pears and peaches. NEWSPAPERS AID HEALTH Expert Says People Are Being Kept Well Informed. , ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 29. Newspapers were credited with keep ing people well by Dr. Caldwell Mor rison of Newark In an address today before the convention of the Allied Medical association. ' 'The dally newspaper," he said. 'keeps the people well instructed. The masses are growing wise. They are learning not to need the doctor nor his medicine. ' Soon the great sur geon, the distinguished specialist, the doctor-druggist and the scientists alone will be left." WELL. ANYHOW, WE'VE GOT HER STARTED. Pugllstlc Patrons Held to Be Those Who Want Mauling More Than Gentlemanly Qualities. BY 1RVIN S. COBB: (Copyright by the Central Press Associa tion. Published by Arrangement.) NEW YORK, June 29. (Special.) Your best expert, your most depena able expert, is the one who carries on h's expertationings at long distance. Then his deductions may rove wild and free like the Indian maid. Sweet Alfalfaretta; they may tw-ine like the woodbine, hither and you, at random. Stubborn facts do not come butting in to interfere with his pet theories. It is an exploded idea at least it should be proper expert must compile his opin Ions on the basis of first-hand obser vatlons. An egg candler cannot lay an egg, but, as has been noted, he l a better judge of an egg than any hen that ever lived. Have any of those astrologers who tell us about Mars ever been there? Our most scholarly reviewers rarely write books o their own. Our leading dramatic critics are not playwrights them selves. Hitchcock Measure Calls for Two Billions Capital, With America Holding Control. WASHINGTON, D. C, June 29. Establishment In New York of an In ternational banking Institution to be known as "The Bank of Nations," with $2,000,000,000 capital, to act as the fiscal agent of the United States and such other governments as might be admitted as stockholders, is pro posed in a bill introduced today by Senator Hitchcock, democrat, Ne braska. Subscription by the treasury de partment to enough stock to control the bank is proposed and the measure would provide that $900,000,000 of stock should be sold to "solvent gov ernments," admitted to participation under treaties or trade agreements negotiated by the president. The resources. and facilities of the bank would be used "to promote In ternational commerce and stabilize international credit and exchange," the bill saya. The bank would have power to lend money, deal in securities and issue notes and currency with a 33 per cent reserve. The bill was referred without dis cussion to the banking committee. CORPORATION REPORTS DUE About 7000 Active Concerns I'nder Stale Jurisdiction. SALEM, Or., June 29. (Special.) Approximately half of the "000 cor porations operating in Oregon have ; 1 - . -4 , v, , i. . . nn-n0in. - an exploded idea that alpartment thfr annua, reports as re. quired under the state laws. The statutes require that these statements shall be filed by July 1. Records In the offices of the cor poration department show that there are approximately 5500 active domes tic corporations operating in Oregon The foreign corporations transacting business in the state aggregate more than 300. Corporations not filing their reports in the statutory period will be suspended from operating in the state. WONT GO OUT TiLA. LEfRN How To swim! J Cool Rxpert Reliable. The surest appraiser of the merits cf a racehorse I ever saw was neither a jockey nor a trainer nor a book maker. He had a pair of withered legs and passed most of his waking hours in a wheel chair. No, air, the expert you can tie to is the one who, cool, calm and collected, stands aloof and afar from the actual operation and delivers his dictum without run ning the risk that occurrences on the spot may upset the apple cart of his deductive processes. Your correspondent has chosen to borrow a page from the book of these gifted men. I have not lately been to Atlantic City nor yet to Manhas- set-by-the-Sound. 1 have not wit nessed the hippodromlng stunts of Jack nor lingered outside the barn where Georges conducts his secret preparatory rites. I have not ap plauded the ballyhoo staged by 1m presario Kearns nor harkened with an attentive and flattered ear to the mysterious whisperea sibilations of the Imported Gallic manager. I find r.iyseir unmoved Dy tne tidings, as exclusively reported a few days ago by a reporter for one of our leading dailies, that Jack will enter the ring wearing the American flag for a belt, If my memory serves me right. Jack has always been ready to do a little something for the flag except when there was a war going on. Dempaey o Gentleman. I have not been greatly stirred by the discovery, already made by up ward of 1500 members of the writing profession, that Georges resembles a Greek god. I have never seen a Greek god. Most of the Greeks I know are engaged in the shoe-shining, the fruit-purveying or the quick lunching business. They are worthy and well-meaning persons, but none of them in the least fulfills my con ception of what is godlike. But, even is the dependable expert waits for others to scramble about in the tur rroil and gather up the sordid details and then, taking their theories over, i rejects some, appropriates the rest, and finally launches forth the last word on the subject, backed with the hallmark of his superior Judgment. I carefully have considered the state ments of those who lately made the pilgrimages to the training camps and have reached the following con clusions, towit: Carpentier Is a perfect gentleman and a probable loser. Dempsey Is neither. No Reflections, .Meant. In advancing this double-barreled statement. I do not mean to reflect upon either of these distinguished personages. When you come right down to cases, the chief patrons of heavyweight championship contests the persons who compose what In the old days in England they called the "fancy" do not. care deeply for fighters who display gentlemanly qualities in the ring or out of it. What they do like Is a two-handed inauier wim juse truuugn iniciiisciico under hio thatch to make him wary. and enough of the brute in his soul t& make him ferocious and merciless. J I They do not crave to behold an ex- ment; they clamor not for three-qut-rters of an hour of footwork, head work and false work. The gen try are not putting up $30 a head using the word "head" in its com mercial and not in its intellectual Bense in the hope of beholding a dainty exposition of the so-called manly art of self-defense over yon der at Jersey City this week end. They want to see somebody knocked for a vista of marble mausoleums. The sporting writers, taken as a Dawes Warns Everybody Costs Must Be Cut. PLEDGE GIVEN PRESIDENT 600 Department Heads Prom ise to Help in Economy. MORE EFFICIENCY GOAL TRADES HEAD IS INDICTED Thomav S. Kearney of Chicago Is Charged With Extortion. CHICAGO. June 29. Thomas S. Kearney, president of the Chicago Building Trades council, was Indicted today by a special grand Jury on a charge of extortion. He was alleged to 'have exacted $15,000 from a motion picture concern to prevent strikes during the erection of a theater. ENVOYS ARE CONFIRMED Senate Approves of Appointment of Two Ambassadors. WASHINGTON. D. C. June 29. Charles B. Warren of Michigan and William Miller Collier of New York were confirmed by the senate today as American ambassadors, respect ively, to Japan and Chile. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Xew Budget Director Declares He Will Get Facts on Which Ad ministration May Work. WASHINGTON, P. C, June 29 President Harding, the cabinet and 600-odd officials who guide govern ment expenditures, met today with Director Dawes of the new budget system to lay what was hailed as the foundation for a new era of economy In federal administration. The pr'l dent opened the conference with the declaration that "there Is not a menace In the world today like grow ing public Indebtedness and mounting expenditures." He referred to the gathering as a flr.t and extraordinary method adopted to meet an emergency. Pledge t.lvea Prraldrnt. The new director, Mr. Dawta, promptly jumped off the platform "to get mentally closer," he said, to his audience and In the 4."i-mlnute talk which followed alternately cajoled, threatened and reast-urrd his auditors, addressed the prrsldmt and admon ished the cabinet members personally. In concluding, he ordered the bureau chiefs to their feet, and holding un his hand, recited the following pledge addre.-cd to the president: "These men, of whom I am one, realue the perplexity of your position, realize that the bualness of the coun try is prostrate, that Ita worklngmen are out of employment, that we are faced with the inexorable necessity of reducing expenditures and we pro pose, Just as we did four years ago, ta win the war to try to do It. And that's all we can do." ICuutJuded on rage 3, Column 3 ) The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 68 decree.; minimum, .n aearees. TODAY'S Probably shower.; noutheny winds. Foreign. Voyage In Antarctic planned by Brltl.h. Page 2. De Valera vetoes London conterence. Page 2. National. New tariff bill appears In house. Page I. Senate committee protects ex-ervlc men who appear at inquiry, i-ags . Director Dawi warns wo bureau cnieis costs must be cut. rage i. Rouse approves naval disarmament plan. Cage 14. Woman representative advocates In nnuu pensions for all war veterans. 1'age -'. Perouality big aid to General Dawes. Page 5. Domeatte. Stillman on stand In divorce hearing. Page 3. War cripples defy socialists to ngnt. Page 3. Woman sears cross Into breast In atone ment for infidelity. Page I. Taclfle Northwest. , Grain, five warehouses and elevator at Myrick. Or., deslroyeo. Dy tire, i in a. Astoria youth. 14. saves two girls from drowning. Paga 1. Olympia ts center for auto bus war. Page 7. Gasoline taxea add $1,094,203 to Oregon road fund. Page 1. h ports. Paeifle Coast league results: At Seattle 7. Portland 2; at Salt Lake A. Sacramento ; at San Francisco 2. Vernon S; at Los Angeles 11. Oakland 0. Page 12. Cobb coolly appraises big fight. Page 1. ijcM. Pompsey ends training for fight. Page 13. Georges to depend on footwork to win title. Page 12. Effort to iuash Indictment of ex-White Sox fails. Page 13. Ring advantage for Dempsey noted. Tage 12. Milwaukie card promises orgy of knock outs. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. Apple pricea average fairly good in season Just closed. Pago 20. Chicago wheat higher on eiport buying and drouth reports. Page 21. Advances In security pricea continue. Page 21. Japanese steamer on Portland list. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. National Guard parades in city. Page 4. Halt is called on much slate road work. Page 14. Bids on 91M.300 of Morris bond bouaa as sets oponed. Page 10. Tri-state medical congress opens today. Page 7. One of seven strikers held In contempt of court, aix freed. Page 10. Ordinance requiring Interurban stage ter minals adopted. Page 9. Promoters of 1fl2o exposition launch finan cial campaign. Page 1. Bilers Is accused of "kiting checks." Paga 14. Bids on city projects less than engineer's eatuuale. Page 20. frond Addreaaed aa -Kolka.1 The little auditorium was crammed and sweltering in heat when the secret service men forced through to the stage President Harding's party, with Vice-President Coolldge, General Perching and the cabinet. Major-generals and rear-admirals with their stiffly uniformed aides sat packed in close ranks among civilians. There was also a Fprlnkllng of women. President Harding greeted them as "fellow workers" ' while Director Dawes hailed them indiscriminately as ' friends, folks and people." His Job was to be the "eyes and ears of the executive, not the fingers." he said, "to get Information from a washerwoman or a vice-president," not to "run a detective bureau, but make pictures for the president and for congress." "Vou have a right to the informa tion," he said turning to President Harding, "Just as the president of a business corporation has the right and nteds to use it, for yours Is the re sponsibility." "I have the powers of the president, to get the facts." he exclaimed, swinging back to his audience, "and they will be exercised." tOiprrta Told (o Harry. The first "picture" would be of -present appropriations, he explained, and he wanted budget representatives an the Job In each department "burn ing the night lights" to "get it out In July." The front rank of his auditors was kept dodging us he g rated and swung full-arm gestures. "lt me submerge now that we've got on this Job," lie said to the news papermen, "for you can t Imagine any man running a street railroad or a manufactory with 30 or 40 of you gentlemen running in to auk ques tions every day. Wait till we get out a budget and then remember to give the credit to the bureau chiefs here. If. we ever get down where want to get It will be theae men who do it. "We propose Just the organlxation which Is the backbone of every busi ness," he said. "Under the old sys tem It's always been the practice of a live bureau to hold up congress for everything it had a chance to spend. 1 know, because I did It myaelf w lien I was running a bureau before. "Now they have to go the other way, and Just lor my reputation. I've got to cut that $223,000 appropriated lor the budget bureau Just 2 per cent. If it takes my salary this year." Mr Harding addressed the several hundred bureau beads as "fellow workers," and outlined In a short ad dress the purposes he hoped would be attained through the budget system. "I do not know." said the presi dent, "that there has evti been a meeting like hlg :n the history of .he government of the United fclates. I am very glad to come before you and stand sponsor tor this meeting. The present administration of th-s federal government Is committed to a period of economy and efficiency in government. This statement li not made with any thought cf criticis ing what has gone before. It is mde In a new realixatlon of thw necessity of driving at tlee loose, un-st lentific expenditures of government."